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From a distance, it can all seem very silly.
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These people have gone to Lourdes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in the hope that the Virgin Mary might cure them of cancer and heart disease.
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These people have gone to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina to pray they might get a chance to talk to dead beloved relatives.
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And these people are praying at the Western Wailing Wall of the old Jewish Temple in Jeruselam and leaving all sort of notes for God to read in the cracks between the stones.
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No wonder some Atheists just think the whole of religion is ludicrous, and they aren't bothered about saying so very directly.
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But that's the wrong way to look at religion.
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What religion teaches us isn't about what's true, but about what many of us here on earth desperately want to be true, for some pretty understandable reasons.
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At one point in the bible, Jesus goes into the house of a man called Jarus, whose 12-year-old daughter has just died.
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Everyone is weeping and lamenting. But Jesus calmly says that she's not dead, she's just asleep.
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"Little girl, I say to you get up!" He says.
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We shouldn't laugh or dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.
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When your child is very sick, you may well end up believing in miracles.
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Because at the end of the day, under immense psychological pressures, you love your child more than you care about the laws of physics and biology.
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And when your loved ones do die, it can take a very robust mind indeed not to imagine, late at night when the sadness becomes overwhelming, that somehow your parent, or child, or friend, is somewhere still around and in a better place than they were.
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And that they might be able to see us as we go about our daily lives and forgive us and understand what we, perhaps, never found a way to say to them.
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And when you're in a complete mess, and all you want to do is cry in shame, you might well start to long for someone who could understand. Someone wise and forgiving, with kindly sympathetic eyes who wont judge and will be patient and kindly, like an ideal mother.
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Science may very rightly deny the existence of the Virgin Mary, let alone paradise and miracles.
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But these beliefs shouldn't just be interpreted as pieces of stupidity.
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They are signs of extreme emotional distress and desperation, which should rightly elicit in us understanding and sympathy.
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Religious beliefs are, of course, technically false.
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But they're coming from a very tender and vulnerable place, which needs our empathy.
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Of course Atheists are technically right. But there's no point getting maddened by the apparent irrationality of the religious.
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We have to understand it and appreciate the intensity of the longings that lead some of us to believe in fantasies against all odds.
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Because reality is just sometimes unbearably painful.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly”. Este vídeo tem 24 frases e 490 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 2:57. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 166 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 82% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| kindly advérbio | /ˈkaɪn(d)li/ | gentilmente |
| technically advérbio | /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/ | na realidade, tecnicamente |
| miracle substantivo | /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/ | milagre |
| elicit verbo | /ɪˈlɪsɪt/ | provocar |
| lament substantivo | /ləˈmɛnt/ | lamento, lamentação |
| ludicrous adjetivo | /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/ | ridículo |
| overwhelm verbo | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | engolir |
| unbearably advérbio | insuportavelmente | |
| longing substantivo | /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/ | saudade f for something absent only |
| madden verbo | /ˈmædən/ | deixar louco |
| desperation substantivo | /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/ | desesperação |
| calmly advérbio | /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/ | tranquilamente |
| stupidity substantivo | /stuˈpɪdɪti/ | estupidez, burrice |
| empathy substantivo | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | empatia |
| understandable adjetivo | compreensível, entendível |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | terminar, acabar |
| get up verbo | subir |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | have gone |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | aren't bothered · be interpreted |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 6 contrações e formas reduzidas, como shouldn't, aren't, isn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “th”: empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, irrationality /ɪˌɹæʃ.əˈnæl.ə.ti/, desperation /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/, stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/, lament /ləˈmɛnt/, sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, interpret /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/, robust /ɹəʊˈbʌst/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como kindly, technically, miracle.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.